06/01/2026
NEW Mystery š-
"The Fine Art of Lying" by Alexandra Andrews
In the beginning, there was art.
It was Clare Bastās love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattanās Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband.
Despite her best effortsāincluding a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was bornāClare secretly canāt help but feel like an imposter in Jedās one-percent, Park-Avenue life.
When the well-connected wife of Jedās new boss introduces her to influential friendsāa curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroadāClare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her.
Suddenly, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself, and her family, out?
